This is the first in a series about the history of JAYC — the American Yacht Club's Junior program. There will be a new post each week in anticipation of the JAYC100 Celebration at AYC in June. In January 1920, AYC voted to drop “steam yachting” from the club’
American Yacht Club was proud to once again send a team to the San Diego Yacht Club’s Women’s Winter Invitational Regatta this February. With its fast-paced, short-course racing in J/22s, this regatta is always a highlight event. This year, Clemmie Everett, Carolyn Russell and Jenn Leary joined
The newest fleet at American Yacht Club, the Melges 15, just finished competing in the AYC Fall One-Design Regatta on Sept 20-21, which also included ILCAs, K6s, and 505s. The conditions were feisty, with above-forecast ENE breeze bringing big waves down the Long Island Sound. Fittingly, there were 15 boats
As she prepares to enter her final year of sailing at Stanford University, Bell 42 caught up with Vanessa Lahrkamp, to reflect on a phenomenal collegiate sailing career thus far, and consider what the future might hold. Bell 42: What was your most memorable accomplishment from this past year sailing
Preface: This July, American Yacht Club christened an IC37, Fair American, which will be the training boat for the AYC team training for the 2026 NYYC Women’s International Championship. The team chose the name to continue the legacy of a series of boats named Fair American raced by a
The American Yacht Club Fall Regatta is almost upon us, with two great weekends of racing planned for September 27 and 28 and October 4 and 5. This year, AYC is evolving the format based on feedback from sailors. The opening weekend, Sept 27 & 28, will consist of two
On June 21, 2025, American Yacht Club hosted the YRALIS Queens Cup. Eight two-person, all-female teams signed for the one-design regatta, sailed in Ideal 18s. Sailors came from American, Indian Harbor, Larchmont, Norwalk, and Pequot Yacht Clubs. The day proved challenging, but PRO Sheila Cameron managed to get 5 races
June has been an enormously successful month for ILCA sailors in the American Yacht Club family, with Daniel Escudero winning the ILCA 7 fleet in the US Championship in Oyster Bay, Paul Clifford and Jean-Yves Fillion coming in 1-2 in the ILCA 6 at the US Masters Championship in Chicago,
AYC sent a team of four talented young sailors to represent the club at the Baldwin Cup at Newport Harbor Yacht Club over April 10th-12th. The team, including Austen Freda, Audrey Fung, Michelle Lahrkamp and Lindsay Powers, put in an amazing performance and were thrilled to represent AYC, where each
The American Yacht Club hosted its 46th annual Spring Regatta, running a coastal race on May 2nd and both coastal and winward/leeward racing on May 3rd and 4th. Wind conditions kept the sailors on their toes. On both Friday and Saturday, the wind clocked around completely, providing the remarkable
It's been a productive start to 2025 for Peter Duncan in the J/70 in his boat Relative Obscurity. First they won Event #2 of the Bacardi Invitational Winter Series (they didn't participate in Event #1) in January against 41 boats, then they won the Bacardi
Every new year, we look forward to the bright bursts of daffodils and the fast-fading blush of cherry blossoms, but the turn of the season also marks a busy rush to get the bigger boats in the water just in time for the American Yacht Club's Spring Regatta